Editorial

Caroline
Hommez
IT
is still often seen as an alien creature, a rather scary entity that you have
to tolerate in your hospital as a ‘sign of the times’, but that you would not
invite to a weekly staff meeting, let alone a board meeting.
The
problem is that this attitude most probably has detrimental effects on hospital
management. To be fully efficient and effective, IT has to be integrated in...

Investing in IT

Author
Claude Hagège,
Director of Information
Systems,
Centre Hospitalier Sainte
Anne, Paris, France.
He is the author of
‘Gouverner le SIH’ (‘Governing HIS’)
published in December 2006
by LEH (www.leh.fr).
From the centralised IT systems approach of the 1980s to the
information system approach of the 2000s, the fundamental evolution which took
place in the health establishments is a change...

Author
Dr. Christian Utler
Head of the QM Department
University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf,
Germany
E-mail: [email protected]
The Hamburg-Eppendorf University
Hospital
The Hamburg-Eppendorf University Hospital consists of 14 centres containing
more than 80 interdisciplinary, collaborative inpatient and outpatient
departments and institutes. With 1,369 beds at its disposal (plus 120...

Author
Corinne Gazeau, HIS
Department Director,
National Mission of the
Support for Hospital Investment
(‘Mission Nationale d’Appui
à l’Investissement Hospitalier’)
Paris, France
Email: [email protected]
The investment in healthcare establishments must allow for
building a healthcare system capable of facing the challenges of the future.
The Hospital Plan 2007, representing...

Author
John Ironmonger,
Account Director,
System C Healthcare,
Warrington, England
Email: [email protected]
‘How many doctors,’ goes the old joke, ‘does it take to change a
light-bulb?’ There are plenty of possible answers to this riddle. ‘It depends
if the bulb was insured,’ is an American response. ‘One to change the bulb,
another to give a second opinion, and a third to draw up...

Hospital IT Award

AuthorStéphane Chemouny, PhD,
President and Director of
Scientific Affairs,
Intrasense, Montpellier,
France
Email : [email protected]
On March 16th 2007, Intrasense was awarded the European ICT Prize
for its medical image review and aided-diagnosis
software suite Myrian® at CeBIT, the world’s largest ICT
(Information and Communications Technologies) tradefair
held in Hanover, Germany...

Congresses/ Conferences/ Symposia

Authors
Annelies Veys and An
Jacobs,
Interdisciplinary Institute
for Broadband
Technology (www.ibbt.be),
Studies on Media,
Information and
Telecommunication
(smit.vub.ac.be),
Vrije Universiteit Brussel,
Brussels, Belgium
Email: [email protected]
In the far north of Norway, the Tromso Telemedicine and eHealth
Conference (TTeC) 2007 took place from 11 to 13 June in Tromso. This
conf...

Searching through the programme for the World of Health IT (WHIT)
conference and exhibition, which takes place in Vienna from 22-25 October, what
stands out is the evident commitment on behalf of the organisers to engage with
as many stakeholders as possible.
The 2006 event in Geneva drew around 2,000 attendees and was
certainly a success by any standards, except the relative lack of ‘front-li...